An Ariane 5 rocket launches the first Automated Transfer Vehicle, "Jules Verne", from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. The space will rendezvous with and supplies to the International Space Station on March 29. //www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMDYOK26DF_index_0.html (ESA)

Tuesday, March 9, 1841

Monday, March 9, 1840

April ndash The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is completed from Raleigh, North Carolina to near Weldon, North Carolina.{{cite web|url=//www.historync.org/railroads.htm|title=Railroads — prior to the Civil War|work=North Carolina Business History|year=2006|accessdate=2011-12-02}}

The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is completed from Wilmington, North Carolina to Weldon, North Carolina. At 161.5 miles (260 km), it is the world's longest railroad.{{cite web|url=//www.historync.org/railroad-WWRR.htm|title=Railroad — Wilmington Raleigh (later Weldon)|work=North Carolina Business History|year=2006|accessdate=2011-12-02}}

Thursday, March 9, 1820

King Ferdinand VII of Spain accepts the new constitution, beginning the "Trienio Liberal".

Wednesday, March 9, 1796

Saturday, March 9, 1776

Saturday, March 9, 1765

After a public caign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have committed suicide.

Sunday, February 27, 1513 (Julianian calendar)

Saturday, March 1, 1309 (Julianian calendar)

Monday, March 2, 1276 (Julianian calendar)

Henry of Ghent becomes the last major theologian to openly consider annuities as usurious contract. The end of the debate allows for the expansion of the budding practice of renten emission to become a staple of public finance in north-western Europe.{{cite journal|last=Munro|first=John H.|title=The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution|journal=The International History Review|year=2003|volume=15|issue=3|pages=506–562}}